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Focuses on characters’ reactions to stormy weather in Tempest and King Lear, with responses ranging from “veneration of the saints to fear and superstition, from praying and begging, to bartering and bargaining.” Considers how characters consider their position in larger world beyond their control which they believe is controlled by divine forces.

Examines Shakespeare’s representation extreme weather and natural disasters, linking them with his experience of Little Ice Age (c. 1300–1850). Considers human responses to forces beyond their control, focusing on depictions in Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tempest which reveal how environmental disasters prompt both immediate fear and lasting psychological changes.

Considers references to Romeo and Juliet in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead,” exploring Joyce’s modern refraction of play’s themes of betrayal and romantic love. Explores critic Margot Norris’ analysis of Joyce’s negotiation of Romeo and Juliet, arguing critic “investigates Joyce's use of an anti-Romeo and Juliet supported by his allusions to Ibsen's radicalism.”

Explores Grand Duchess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1824 –1897)'s support of numerous social and cultural institutions Weimar, especially the German Shakespeare Society, founded in Weimar in April 1864. Explains how Sophie became Society patron and her active participation, regularly contributing funds to build up Shakespeare library and donating valuable books to library. Notes that Sophie herself only owned few Shakespeare editions in her private library, mostly acquired from the Society's board members. Uses book list of Sophie's private library to trace the founding of German Shakespeare Society and to analyze her private Shakespeare books and her donations.

Includes one essay on Shakespeare. 

Obituary for Shakespeare scholar Werner Habicht (1930-2022).

Publishes for first time WDR broadcast about “Shakespeare and the Germans”  by literary scholar Hans Mayer (1907-2001) to mark 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth. Discusses Shakespeare as a German phenomenon, and illustrates how writings and translations from Enlightenment to Sturm und Drang period, to expressionist and contemporary demonstrate Shakespeare's influence. The series was broadcast between June 7 and July 26, 1964 on eight consecutive Sundays. Introduction by Heinrich Bleicher.

Argues that Shakespeare’s allegorical poem “The Phoenix and The Turtle” operates as experiment in metaphysical poetry in that it draws on language of metaphysics, probes its canonical problems, and explores link between poetic and philosophical thinking. Demonstrates that love between phoenix and turtle evokes dilemma of the particular and the universal, felt most strongly in realm of aesthetic experience.

Traces process by which Shakespeare’s sonnets produce rather than express emotion, arguing that “feeling emerges in the act of speaking about feeling, which is also the attempt of segmenting heterogeneous affective states into distinctly conceptualized feelings.” Claims that gist of these lyric poems are located, not in success of their attempts to articulate feeling, but in their failure to do so because of irreducible volatility of feeling.

Proposes that anonymous drama Caesars Reuenge, performed by Trinity College, Oxford students, shaped revenge framework and suggested sacrificial theme of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Infers therefore that distance between worlds of academic drama and London stage was not as great as many scholars have previously assumed.